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Midnight Streets by Phil Lecomber

By RoughJustice

20 March, 2025

From the title to the evocative cover showing a man in a trench coat and fedora, everything about Phil Lecomber’s second novel is designed to suggest we are stepping into classic detective fiction. However, the author has swapped the blinding glaze of Raymond Chandler’s LA…

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The Masked Band by Bernard O'Keeffe

By DeathBecomesHer

7 March, 2025

Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and David Bowie walk into a bar. Could this be the first line of some convoluted joke, maybe? Well, no – because murder is a serious business, is it not? The famous fivesome in question call themselves…

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Sweat by Emma Healey

By DeathBecomesHer

19 February, 2025

It’s been almost a decade since we last heard from Elizabeth is Missing author Emma Healey, and just like any good personal trainer, she likes to keep you on your toes. A strange analogy, perhaps, for a writer who leapt to fame with a debut…

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The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 February, 2025

If you’d like to escape the 21st Century for a romp in late-Victorian London, one in which you don’t really have to take anything too seriously, this entertaining historical crime novel might be just the thing to conquer those January blues. Quinn le Blanc is…

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Queen of Diamonds by Beezy Marsh

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 January, 2025

This is the third in Beezy Marsh’s trilogy inspired by a real-life female shoplifting gang that operated in London in the first half of the 20th century. The first two books, Queen of Thieves and Queen of Clubs, dealt with the gang’s activities during their…

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An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

By DeathBecomesHer

10 January, 2025

Last year I read and reviewed Here One Minute by Liane Moriarty, and it changed my attitude to flying. The book’s central character is an elderly woman who stands up on a flight between Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney, Australia and proceeds to tell each of…

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White City by Dominic Nolan

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

18 December, 2024

Dominic Nolan’s White City is a gritty, evocative story set in 1950s London, a city in ruins after World War II. While many crime novels set in the city focus on the East End, here we’re up west, in and around Notting Dale, Soho, White…

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How Not to Kill a Spy by John Fullerton

By Paul Burke

10 December, 2024

The second Septimus Brass novel is another illustration of just how widely John Fullerton’s spy fiction ranges. He spans the genre from Cold War to contemporary espionage, and from Afghanistan to Beijing, via Russia to London, which is where we find ourselves in How Not…

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Midnight Streets by Phil Lecomber

The Masked Band by Bernard O'Keeffe

Sweat by Emma Healey

The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay

Queen of Diamonds by Beezy Marsh

An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

White City by Dominic Nolan

How Not to Kill a Spy by John Fullerton

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